User Clip: African American and Civil Rights Conference - The Future of the African American Past. Civil Rights Movement and the Freedom Struggle. The Complexities of Blackness.

Barbara Ransby, leads a panel discussion about the struggle to understand or define Blackness. Clayborne Carson, recalls how the struggle to define Blackness created a division within the Civil Rights Movement as they worked to develop alliances with a multiracial coalition.

Panel Moderator: Barbara Ransby, Professor, University of Illinois, African American Studies Department. Panelists: Rosalyn Terborg, Professor Emerita, Morgan State University; Clayborne Carson, Founding Director, Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute close